A Thousand Lire a Month () is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Alida Valli, Umberto Melnati and Osvaldo Valenti.Nowell-Smith p.119 It is a remake of the 1936 Hungarian film Havi 200 fix. The plot concerns an electronic engineer who goes to Budapest, accompanied by his girlfriend, to work on experiments for a new television system leading to countless mix-ups.
It was shot at the Safa Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti.
Cast Alida Valli as Magda Umberto Melnati as Matteo Osvaldo Valenti as Gabriele Corodi Renato Cialente as Il direttore generale della Radio di Budapest Ninì Gordini Cervi as Lilli Giuseppe Pierozzi as Axel, il capo del personale Anna Doré as Lia Loletta Amina Pirani Maggi as La madre di Magda Maria Polese as La zia di Magda Fausto Guerzoni as Leopoldo Almos Vasco Creti as Il padrone della farmacia Armando Arzalesi Aristide Baghetti as Il padrino con il monocolo Luigi Erminio D'Olivo as L'ingegnere in attesa di diventare padre Carlo Lombardi as Il ministro Renato Malavasi as Un tecnico televisivo Livia Minelli as Francesca, la cameriera Lina Tartara Minora as La padrona della pensione di Almos Sergio Pastorini as Il tenore Cesare Polacco as Carletto, l'altro padrino Adriano Rimoldi as Un impiegato della radio Dina Romano as La donna con il mal di denti Felice Romano as Un altro tecnico televisivo Gennaro Sabatano Elettra Terzolo as Caterina, la cameriera
References
Bibliography Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell, 1996.
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